Results: 9

Resolution of headache after reduction of prolactin levels in hyperprolactinemic patients

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 78 (1), 2020
Abstract Prolactin (PRL) secreting adenomas are associated with high incidence of headache. The role of hyperprolactinemia in the headache context is not clear, nor is the effect of its treatment on headache. Methods: The present longitudinal study evaluated hyperprolactinemic patients (69), in terms o...

Pituitary gigantism: a case series from Hospital de San José (Bogotá, Colombia)

ABSTRACT Introduction Gigantism is a rare pediatric disease characterized by increased production of growth hormone (GH) before epiphyseal closure, that manifests clinically as tall stature, musculoskeletal abnormalities, and multiple comorbidities. Materials and methods Case series of 6 male patient...

Adenomas hipofisarios en pacientes añosos

Medicina (B.Aires); 79 (3), 2019
Se evaluó la presentación clínica, tratamiento y sus resultados durante el seguimiento prolongado de 37 pacientes mayores de 65 años con adenomas hipofisarios, y sus causas de muerte. El estudio fue retrospectivo y transversal. La prevalencia de incidentalomas fue 43% (16), macroadenomas 70.3% (26) y...

Pituitary adenomas in elderly patients

Medicina (B.Aires); 79 (3), 2019
Clinical presentation, treatment and its results were evaluated during long-term follow-up of 37 patients older than 65 years with pituitary adenomas. Causes of death were also evaluated. It was a retrospective and cross-sectional study. Prevalence of incidentalomas was 43% (16), macroadenomas 70.3% (26)...

A review on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with clinically nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma by the Neuroendocrinology Department of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism

ABSTRACT Clinically nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPA) are the most common pituitary tumors after prolactinomas. The absence of clinical symptoms of hormonal hypersecretion can contribute to the late diagnosis of the disease. Thus, the majority of patients seek medical attention for signs and sympt...

Avaliaçäo da resposta terapêutica aos análogos da somatostatina em uma linhagem de tumores hipofisários somato-mamotróficos transplantáveis do rato

Foram avaliados os efeitos de um análogo da somatostanina, a octreotida, sobre a secreção hormonal e a proliferação celular de tumores hipofisários do rato, secretores de PRL (SMtTW2) ou GH e PRL (SMtTW10), considerados como modelos experimentais de adenomas mamo-somatotróficos. Os tumores primár...

Tratamento medicamentoso dos tumores hipofisários: parte I: prolactinomas e adenomas secretores de GH
Drug therapy of hypophyseal tumors: part I: prolactinomas and GH secretory adenomas

O recente desenvolvimento de novas drogas, particularmente os análogos da somatostatina (SRIFa), representou um grande processo na terapia dos tumores hipofisários. Os SRIFa mostram-se bastante eficazes na normalizaçäo dos níveis de GH e IGH- 1 em acromegálicos e podem ser uma alternativa para a ci...

Detección temprana de adenomas en sujetos asintomáticos: ¿sigmoidoscopia flexible o colonoscopia?
Early detection of adenomas in asymptomatic subjects. flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy

Rev. gastroenterol. Méx; 61 (1), 1996
Objetivo. Determinar la frecuencia de adenomas, así como la sensibilidad, expecificidad, valor predictivo positivo y negativo de la SF en la detección temprana de pólipos, en dos grupos de pacientes asintomáticos, tomando como estándar de oro a la colonoscopia (CP). Antecedentes. La sigmoidoscopia f...

Adenoma tubular periampular: reporte de un caso
Periampular adenoma tubular: report of a case

Arch. Hosp. Vargas; 37 (1/2), 1995
El adenoma Tubular Periampular es una condición poco frecuente, si se toma en consideración que los tumores del intestino delgado representan el 1 por ciento de los tumores gastro-intestinales, los adenomas tubulares periampulares constituyen una proporción pequeña de los tumores del duodeno. Se desc...